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Clumber Park tel: 01909 476592 Area: Nottinghamshire |
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| Visitor Information | www.nationaltrust.org.uk/clumberpark -- email: clumberpark {at} nationaltrust.org.uk |
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Clumber Park |
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| Opening Days and Hours | |||
Park: All year, dawn - dusk, Sun - Sat |
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| Parties
/ Coaches: Yes Coaches free on weekdays |
Groups
/ Coaches need Appointment: Yes Guided Tour of gardens on offer. |
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House
Open for Viewing: No |
National
Garden Scheme days: No |
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| Best
Times of Year to Visit: May/June - Pleasure Gounds July/August - Kitchen Garden |
To
see: Rhododendrons Herbaceous Border and fruit & vegetables. |
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| Admission Prices | |||
| Admission free. Vehicle entry charge: £4.80 per vehicle. Coaches, cyclists and pedestrians free. Walled Kitchen Garden: £2.75, child free. Orienteering by arrangement (orienteering packs £1.95). Horse riding by permit only, £8 day permit or £65 annual season ticket. Coarse fishing: 16 June-14 March, 7-dusk; £4.70 day ticket or £60 annual season ticket (concessions £2.50/£35). Cycle hire: £6 (2hr), £12 (day) | |||
| Onsite Facilities | |||
| Parking:
Yes Lavatories: Yes Disabled Access: Yes |
Shop:
Yes Plants for Sale: Yes Lunches: Yes |
Teas:
Yes Light Refreshment: Yes Picnics: Yes |
Dogs
Allowed: Yes On Lead only: No Special Events: Yes |
| Other
Facilities: Cycles are available to hire to take advantage of the extensive rides in the park. |
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| Garden Features | |||
| Extensive area of parkland, including peaceful woods, open heath and farmland; Idyllic lakeside walks in the Pleasure Ground; The longest avenue of lime trees in Europe; Hire a cycle (or bring your own) and explore our woodland trails; Clumber Chapel - a Gothic cathedral in miniature; Culinary tastes of the past come to life in the restaurant; See, smell and taste the colourful fruit, vegetables and flowers in the Walled Kitchen Garden | English Heritage Garden Grade: I | ||
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| Description of Garden | Designer:
Stephen Wright and Henry Fiennes Clinton, 9th Earl of Lincoln |
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| A wonderful two mile avenue of mature limes leads to the large artificial serpentine lake beside which one would expect to find a large mansion. There is however an enormous Gothic chapel and some very pretty original stable blocks. The impressively large trees and rhododendrons set in the rolling parkland around the lake are really the best part of the garden. There is an impressive avenue of cedars leading to a walled garden which has a good range of glasshouses with a collection of early garden implements. The Lincoln Terrace beside the lake provides an enjoyable stroll, concluding in a dock where a pleasure boat was once kept. | |||
| History of Garden | |||
| The Dukeries were the site for a competitive building spree in the 18th and 19th century between a number of newly created Dukes and Earls on land annexed from Sherwood Forest. Much of the Forest was felled to provide oak and other timber for the fleets required to defend the country against the French and Spanish leaving some of the few large tracts of land in England not already in private ownership. Clumber was originally laid out in about 1760 with a substantial mansion which was burned down in 1879. Building immediately commenced but only the foundation stones survive to show the outline of the huge house which stood here until 1938 when it was demolished to save tax for the by then relatively impoverished Duke of Newcastle. The National Trust took on the estate after WWII. | |||
| Nearby Nottinghamshire Hotels, Facilities & Amenities | |||
| Hotels
& Accommodation: Clumber Park Hotel, Thoresby Hall Hotel |
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Villages / Towns
/ Sightseeing: Welbeck Abbey Garden Centre Thoresby Hall |
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